INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS & APPLICATIONS, BHUBANESWAR

ENTRANCE TEST-2010
B.Sc.(Honours): Mathematics & Computing
Maximum Marks :100 Time Alloted: 2 Hr.
(Multiple choice questions)
All questions are compulsory. Each question has 4 choices (A), (B), (C), (D), out of
which ONLY ONE is correct. Choose the correct answer. Each question carries +4
marks for correct answer and 1 mark for wrong answer.
1. Which one of the following is a function from X = {1, 2, 3, 4} to itself ?
(A) f
1
= {(x, y) : y x = 1} (B) f
2
= {(x, y) : y + x > 4}
(C) f
3
= {(x, y) : y x < 0} (D) f
4
= {(x, y) : y + x = 5}
2. The image of the interval [1, 3] under the mapping f(x) = 4x
3
12x is
(A) [2, 0] (B) [8, 72]
(C) [8, 0] (D) none of these.
3. If S
1
, S
2
, S
3
are the sum of n, 2n, 3n terms respectively of an A.P., then
(A) S
3
= 2(S
1
+ S
2
) (B) S
3
= S
1
+ S
2
(C) S
3
= 3(S
2
S
1
) (D) S
3
= 3(S
2
+ S
1
)
4. The coecients of
n

n
in the expansion of [(1 + )(1 + )( + )]
n
is
(A)

n
k=0
C
2
k
(B)

n
k=0
C
2
k+2
(C)

n
k=0
C
2
k+3
(D)

n
k=0
C
3
k
5. The number of ways in which 13 gold coins can be distributed among three persons such that
each one gets at least two gold coins is
(A) 36 (B) 24
(C) 12 (D) 6.
6. The total number of non-dierentiability points of the function f(x) = min

| sin x|, | cos x|,

1
4

in (0, 2) is
(A) 7 (B) 10
(C) 11 (D) 13.
7. If

x 3 6
3 6 x
6 x 3

2 x 7
x 7 2
7 2 x

4 5 x
5 x 4
x 4 5

= 0, then x is equal to
(A) 9 (B) 9
(C) 0 (D) none of these.
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8. The equation of the tangent to the hyperabola 3x
2
y
2
= 3 parallel to the line y = 2x + 4 is
(A) y = 2x + 3 (B) y = 2x + 1
(C) y = 2x + 2 (D) y = 3x + 1.
9. If |z 1 i| = 1, then the locus of points represented by the complex number 5(z i) 7 is a
circle with
(A) centre (1, 0) (B) radius 2 units
(C) radius 5 units (D) centre (2, 0).
10.

(2x
2
+ 3x + 6)
10
(x
12
+ x
11
+ x
10
)dx is equal to
(A)
x
12
+ x
11
+ x
10
66
+ constant (B)
x
6
(2x
2
+ 3x + 6)
11
66
+ constant
(C)
x
11
(2x
2
+ 3x + 6)
11
66
+ constant (D)
(2x
2
+ 3x + 6)
11
66
+ constant
11. Let x, y, z be three real and distinct numbers satisfying the equation 8(4x
2
+y
2
) +2z
2
4(4xy +
yz + 2xz) = 0. Then
(A)
x
y
=
1
2
(B)
y
z
=
1
4
(C)
x
y
=
1
3
(D) x, y, z are in G.P.
12. The function f : [0, ) [0, ) dened by f(x) =
x
1 + x
is
(A) one-one and onto (B) one-one, but not onto
(C) not one-one, but onto (D) neither one-one nor onto
13. Which one of the following numbers is rational ?
(A) sin 15

(B) cos 15

(C) sin 15

cos 15

(D) sin 15

cos 75

14. The smallest positive root of the equation tan x = x lies in the interval
(A)

0,

2

(B)

2
,

(C)

,
3
2

(D)

3
2
, 2

15. The number of real solutions of the equation |x|

2
3|x| + 2 = 0 is
(A) 1 (B) 2
(C) 3 (D) 4
2
16. The coecient of x
99
in the expansion of (x 1)(x 2) (x 100) is
(A) 5150 (B) 5050
(C) 5051 (D) 5151
17. The area enclosed by the curves y = 1 +|x| and y = 1 |x| is
(A) 1 sq. unit (B) 2 sq. units
(C) 2

2 units (D) 4 sq. units

18. If lim
n
1
1 +

x
2
+ a
x
2
+ 1

n
= 1, then the value of a lies in the interval
(A) (1, 1) (B) (0, 1)
(C) (1/2, 1) (D) (1, 0)
19. a and b are two solutions of the equation e
x
cos x 1 = 0. The minimum number of solution(s)
of the equation e
x
sin x 1 = 0 lying between a and b is
(A) 0 (B) 1
(C) 3 (D) none of these
20. If the parabola y
2
= 4ax and the circle x
2
+y
2
+2bx = 0 have more than two common tangents,
then ab may be equal to (ab = 0)
(A)
5
2
(B) 3
(C) 2 (D) none of these
21. A point on the curve x
2
+ 2y
2
= 6 whose distance from the line y = 7 x is minimum is
(A) (

6, 0) (B) (0,

3)
(C) (2, 1) (D) (

2,

2)
22. The function f(x) = (cos x)
1
x
is not dened at x = 0. The value which should be assigned to
f at x = 0, so that f is continuous at x = 0, is
(A) 0 (B) 1
(C) 1 (D) e
23. If f(x) = min{1, x
2
, x
3
}, then
(A) f is continuous & dierentiable everywhere.
(B) f is continuous everywhere but not dierentiable at two points.
(C) f is continuous everywhere but not dierentiable at one point.
(D) none of these.
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24. If u = f(tan x), v = g(sec x), f

(x) = tan
1
x, and g

(x) = cosec
1
x, then the value of
du
dv
at

4
is
(A) 1 (B)

2
(C) 2 (D)
1

2
25. Consider the following statements:
S
1
: Both sin x and cos x are decreasing functions in the interval

2
,

.
S
2
: If a dierentiable function decreases in the interval (a, b), then its derivative also decreases
in (a, b).
Then which one of the following is true ?
(A) Both S
1
and S
2
are wrong.
(B) Both S
1
and S
2
are correct, but S
2
is not the correct explanation for S
1
.
(C) S
1
is correct and S
2
is the correct explanation for S
1
.
(D) S
1
is correct, but S
2
is wrong.
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